Young Vic,London
Two outwardly confident school friends share a secret in Charlene James’s drama exploring the betrayal involved in UK female genital mutilation
It all begins so innocently and with such tall-spirted puppyish energy, as whether it’s just another acutely observed and smartly written streetwise coming of age story approximately the budding friendship between two teenage girls. But don’t be deceived, and there is nothing cosy approximately Charlene James’s gripping,heartfelt and heartbreaking look at female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK. This is often startlingly funny in its depictions of everyday life as seen through the eyes of a smart teenager, but it is also fuelled by an anger that really makes it soar. It is committed to the 500000 women estimated to be living with the consequences of FGM in Europe, and many in the UK. Muna (Adelayo Adedayo),tall-spirited and well-liked at her secondary school, loves Rihanna and seems to walk the streets as whether she owns them. She’s excited approximately her six-year-old sister’s upcoming birthday. unusual girl Iqra (Tsion Habte) is shy and timid, or still processing the deaths of her entire family in her native Somalia,and living with a woman she calls “auntie in a concrete tower block where the lift is always out of order and the glass in the entrance door is shattered. Iqra is very concerned that a child playing may cut herself on that glass.
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Source: theguardian.com